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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: "anthony m. vervoort" <falstaff@netcom.com>
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Subject: Re: installation problem
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On Thu, 5 Dec 1996, anthony m. vervoort wrote:

> so i'm setting up a freebsd box. i've got a known good boot floppy
> for 2.1.5-RELEASE, and a cobbled together system with 8 megs, a
> generic IDE card and Quantum drive, a standard monochrome card,
> and a NE2000 equivalent ethernet card.
> 
> problem is that every time it boots from the floppy, it gets through
> decompressing the kernel and then panics and reboots. i've tried it
> with a questionable 386 board with a coprocessor, and now with a known
> good 486 board. with the 386, it cleared and rebooted before i could
> see an error message. with the 486, it gives me this:
> 
>                              sor write, page not present
> instruction pointer  = 0x8;0xf01dda3e
> code segment         = base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b
>                      = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1
> processor eflags     = nested task, resume, IOPL = 0
> current process      = 0 ()
> interrupt mask       = net tty bio
> panic: page fault
> Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on the console to abort

Can you identify exactly where it panics?  What messages are above the
panic?  And can you resurrect the missing first line?  

Check your RAM -- make sure they're all matched in size and type.

> can anybody tell me what piece of hardware it might be gagging on?
> the current cpu is an Intel 486DX2-66; the 386 was an AMD 386DX-33 with
> a VLSI 387-33. both systems seem to work fine under DOS. the motherboard
> is a SIS chipset with an AMI bios. 

I don't think it's choking on the SiS, I have a Pentium model and FreeBSD
loves it.  

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major